Although Brendan Rodgers’ reign got off to a losing start at Watford last Sunday, there was one particular moment that suggested good times ahead for Leicester City.

With 15 minutes remaining, Youri Tielemans threaded a perfect through ball to meet Jamie Vardy’s run through a stubborn Watford defence. It was the sort of ball that is meat and drink to Vardy and he tucked home the equaliser with a clever touch past Ben Foster.

While Tielemans isn’t quite up to the frantic pace of the Premier League yet – he has been substituted three times in his four appearances, looking completely knackered – that can easily be put right on the training ground.

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While we have been appreciating his superb portfolio of passes, it was difficult to get too excited about a player who it had been said we had no chance of signing.

It reminded me of the brief Kevin Campbell era in 1989-90, who performed superbly on loan for a few weeks and lifted David Pleat’s side away from the relegation zone. A cash-strapped City moved heaven and earth to put in a cheeky £1m bid for Campbell, which Arsenal no doubt put straight into the waste-paper bin.

But cash-strapped doesn’t describe City these days, despite a 98% drop in profits that, in any other business, would have the shareholders stampeding in panic.

Kevin Campbell during his brief loan spell at Leicester City in 1989-90

When a figure of £40m for Tielemans was mentioned you sort of thought, well, that’s doable.

With Adrien Silva, who went to Monaco as part of the Tielemans swap loan deal, thriving in the more relaxed Ligue 1, that figure could be nearer to £30m.

That is still, of course, an enormous amount of money, especially for a club who may be feeling a little delicate about the wallet following the publishing of the 2017-18 accounts. But any club who has serious ambitions to get into Europe is going to have to pay that sort of figure for a player now and again.

While I’m dreaming about spending the club’s money, I would also hope that Aleksandar Mitrovic is on the club’s shopping list for next season.

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Fulham are now surely doomed to be relegated, and it was very sad to see Claudio Ranieri sacked. I wish he had never taken the job on. But Mitrovic has impressed hugely this season, in a struggling side, and looks to be exactly the sort of determined aerial presence that City have been missing in the opposition area this season.

It you had a pound for every cross that has sailed across the area untouched, been headed clear by an untroubled centre-half, or been headed wide, you’d probably have enough to buy Youri Tielemans.

With a supply line to Vardy, someone who battles to get on the end of crosses, and the return of centre-half Filip Benkovic from Celtic, I don’t think that City’s current squad would need much more adding to it to make a big step forward next season.